Review
Chemistry, Applied
Seoung-Mi Choi, Ju Hyun Kim
Summary: This review summarizes the progress made in the synthesis of 2H-pyrroles since 2000, including methods such as dearomatization of 1H-pyrrole, oxidation of pyrrolines or pyrrolidines, ring construction via catalytic cycloaddition, and rearrangement of 3H-pyrroles.
ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS
(2023)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Sofia Siciliano, Elena Cini, Maurizio Taddei, Giorgia Vinciarelli
Summary: The synthesis of 2-substituted indoles from unprotected 2-alkynylanilines using Pd(OAc)(2) catalyst in 3% TPGS-750-M water was found to be sensitive to the heating mode and the MW delivery mode, with convectional heating often proving more effective than microwave dielectric heating. Additionally, a tandem Sonogashira-cyclisation reaction was successfully achieved in the nanomicellar water environment with Pd(OAc)(2)/Xphos.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Tobias Wagener, Lukas Lueckemeier, Constantin G. Daniliuc, Frank Glorius
Summary: This study successfully demonstrates the synthesis of sought-after, enantioenriched delta-lactams through an interrupted hydrogenation mechanism using oxazolidinone-substituted pyridines and water.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Ken-Loon Choo, Bijan Mirabi, Karl Z. Demmans, Mark Lautens
Summary: Enantioenriched spiro-oxiranes with three contiguous stereocenters were synthesized using a rhodium-catalyzed cascade reaction, enabling the formation of a spirocyclic framework in a single step. Both sp(2)- and sp-hybridized carbon nucleophiles were found to be efficient initiators, yielding products with different functional groups. Derivatization studies demonstrated the synthetic versatility of the products' epoxide and alkyne moieties. DFT calculations were employed to explain spectroscopic discrepancies between solution- and solid-state structures of the products.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Applied
Raja K. K. Rit, Hongyi Li, Stephen P. P. Argent, Katherine M. M. Wheelhouse, Simon Woodward, Hon Wai Lam
Summary: Chiral dienes are important ligands in asymmetric catalysis but they are difficult to obtain. In this study, a simple chiral allenecarboxanilide was used to produce pseudoenantiomeric bicyclo[2.2.2]octa-2,5-dienes containing an alkenyl bromide via intramolecular [4+2] cycloaddition. These compounds can be easily functionalized to provide diverse chiral diene ligands. The synthesis is straightforward and can be conducted on a large scale. The resulting ligands exhibit high performance in nine types of enantioselective Rh(I)-catalyzed addition reactions.
ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Chenxiao Qian, Pengfei Li, Jianwei Sun
Summary: A catalytic enantioselective variant of oxidative rearrangement of indoles to access oxindoles has been developed using chiral phosphoric acid catalysis, providing a rapid access to a range of enantioenriched spirooxindoles with high enantioselectivity controlled by dynamic kinetic resolution.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Applied
Tobias Wagener, Marco Pierau, Arne Heusler, Frank Glorius
Summary: In this study, a one-pot protocol for the synthesis of octahydroindoles, decahydroquinolines, and octahydroindolizines through a cascade reaction is presented.
ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Luca Vaghi, Roberto Cirilli, Marco Pierini, Simona Rizzo, Giancarlo Terraneo, Tiziana Benincori
Summary: PHANE-TetraPHOS, a novel D-2 symmetric tetraphosphane, features four homotopic diphenylphosphane groups with indistinguishable spatial arrangement. Enantiomeric purity was achieved through crystallization and alkaline treatment, leading to enantiopure PHANE-TetraPHOS antipodes. These ligands showed comparable catalytic activity and enantiodiscrimination ability to PHANEPHOS, using only half the amount of chiral ligand.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Remi Lavernhe, Ruben O. Torres-Ochoa, Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu
Summary: A versatile copper-catalyzed synthesis of ynimines from readily available O-acetyl ketoximes and terminal alkynes has been developed, leading to the synthesis of medicinally important heterocycles.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Marc Strohmann, Andreas J. Vorholt, Walter Leitner
Summary: This study presents a method for transforming olefins into branched amines by combining hydroformylation/aldol condensation tandem reaction with reductive amination. The method utilizes a combined multiphase system that can be recycled 9 times. The study demonstrates the feasibility of the method and its potential applications in the production of surfactants.
CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Feng-Lin Hong, Chong-Yang Shi, Pan Hong, Tong-Yi Zhai, Xin-Qi Zhu, Xin Lu, Long-Wu Ye
Summary: In this study, a copper-catalyzed asymmetric cascade cyclization/[1,2]-Stevens-type rearrangement was reported to efficiently assemble a variety of valuable chiral chromeno[3,4-c]pyrroles bearing a quaternary carbon stereocenter with generally moderate to good yields and excellent enantioselectivities (up to 99% ee). Notably, this protocol represents the first example of catalytic asymmetric [1,2]-Stevens-type rearrangement based on alkynes and the first asymmetric formal carbene insertion into the Si-O bond.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Shuyou Chen, Jiefeng Zhu, Jie Ke, Yingzi Li, Chuan He
Summary: In this study, we report a new method for the synthesis of acyclic silanes bearing a silicon-stereogenic center using a rhodium-catalyzed intermolecular dehydrogenative Si-H/C-H cross-coupling reaction. The method shows good yields and stereo-control, significantly enlarging the chemical space of optically active silicon-stereogenic monohydrosilanes.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Applied
Miguel A. Munoz-Torres, Fernando Martinez-Lara, Marta Solas, Samuel Suarez-Pantiga, Roberto Sanz
Summary: The combination of organolithium chemistry with gold catalysis offers a new synthetic strategy for accessing polysubstituted indoles and carbazoles. This method utilizes ketopyrroles as starting materials and involves a series of reactions to selectively synthesize the desired products.
ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Fuad O. Usman, Achyut R. Gogoi, Jason C. Mixdorf, Osvaldo Gutierrez, Hien M. Nguyen
Summary: In this study, an enantioselective synthesis of 1,2-disubstituted allylic fluorides using a chiral diene-ligated rhodium catalyst was reported. Kinetic studies and calculations were conducted to investigate the molecular structure and reaction kinetics of the formation process of 1,2-disubstituted allylic fluorides. The reaction selectivity and yield of the construction process of 1,2-disubstituted allylic fluorides were also identified.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Daisuke Yokose, Yuki Nagashima, Suzuka Kinoshita, Juntaro Nogami, Ken Tanaka
Summary: Axially chiral styrene-carboxylic esters and stilbenedicarboxylic esters were synthesized with high yields and excellent enantioselectivity using chelation-controlled cycloaddition reactions. The five-membered chelate coordinating to rhodium showed higher reactivity in the reactions.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2022)